source: https://twitter.com/wagslane/status/1637910671781404673
image description:
a girl is smiling in front of the camera, not directly looking at it. in front of her is a big cake. the text on her reads, "PM showing off latest features"
just on the left and a little behind is a guy, out of focus, blankly staring at the cake. the text on him reads, "dev getting 0 credit"
Eh, I don't want to present features to stakeholders. It's pretty thankless, in my experience. The real worthwhile merit is in presenting architecture designs and reviews to tech leadership.
I'm not an architect, but I've sat in on architecture presentations and the most rewarding feedback I've seen is "Any objections? Ok, approved".
The rewarding feedback is often during your next compensation review, if you razzle dazzle 'em enough.
Good to hear it happens, even if the praise is all behind closed doors.
When they offer you a 3% uplift, rather than 2% with inflation running higher.
In my current project, we hold reviews together with our customer, because supposedly they work together with us on this project (they have done nothing of value since project start).
And it's so miserable, because among us colleagues, we really don't know what everyone else actually developed, because you obviously don't want to go into deep technical discussions, nor be too critical, when the customers all sit there.
In every dev job I've ever held it's been me or one of the other devs doing demos (usually me though). Granted I haven't worked on anything truly high profile that a demo would be An Event.